Dangerous conditions force beach closure

A dangerous section of beach south of Gympie has been closed to all four-wheel drives.

Cooloola recreation area senior ranger Bart Klekar says access along the beach on the northern side of Double Island Point has been closed.

Mr Klekar says there have been several vehicle rollovers at a steep and narrow section of the beach that has been severely eroded.

Double Island Point is popular with surfers, fishers and daytrippers but Mr Klekar says it is closed indefinitely.

"We thought we might be able to get a machine in there to flatten the track out and build the track up a bit but we're playing with nature there," he said.

"It's just too dynamic a site, I mean we've got a very steep 20 [to] 30 metre sand dune on [the] right-hand side that could collapse and then on the left-hand side we're talking about a lagoon that could just come in overnight and take away the whole beach, so no matter what you do it's fraught with dangers.

"On the weekend just gone two or more vehicles got stuck.

"One vehicle was stuck in the lagoon at that point, slipped off the track down into the lagoon and he was there for two tides and didn't get out for a day or so after."